Part of the Citizen Design Lab, accompanying By the People: Designing a Better America at MOAD. Lectures and presentations curated by Dr. Ariadna Hernandez-Reguant. The Citizen Design Lab’s activities are developed in partnership with ISA-Interface Studio Architects.
Presentation by Alejandro Haiek (Lab.Pro.Fab, Venezuela)
Award-winning Venezuelan architect Alejandro Haiek co-founded Lab.Pro.Fab (Project and Fabrication Laboratory) in the early 2000s to address social, political, and environmental issues through a collaborative architectural practice. Working outside official channels in the slums of Caracas, he has initiated bottom-up, community-based projects and built unconventional structures that encourage social diversity, community empowerment, cultural activism, and sustainability. His presentation will focus on two of Lab.Pro.Fab’s innovative and subversive projects that reimagine relations between public landscapes, post-industrial ecologies, and political networks.